The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. There are a lot of variables to go into calculating a fair equity split a startup team. To me, that is no different than financing the business. How important is this person’s role?

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The Next Web

JUNE 15, 2012

From Silicon Valley to Peoria, Illinois, cash-strapped startups look for inventive way to finance their business – often handing out equity to employees, consultants, vendors, and other service providers. Speed is often of the essence early on in the startup lifecycle, and that often means rushing into casual arrangements.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Pros and cons of using your own money for startup costs. You have a vested interest in its success, which can provide you with the drive needed to overcome challenges and establish strong relationships with customers, vendors, suppliers, and so on. You may need to fund the enterprise on your own. Conduct a cost estimation.

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Cost Startup Early Stage Vesting 138

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

TEC is one of Canada’s largest and most experienced private credit firms, specializing in providing asset-based capital solutions to companies that are underserved or overlooked by traditional sources of financing, primarily banks. The firm has made more than $4.5

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Want to start a startup? Its equivalent toasking how to make a startup succeed—if you avoid every cause offailure, you succeed—and thats too big a question to answer onthe fly. 1 ] In a sense theres just one mistake that kills startups: not makingsomething users want. Get funded by Y Combinator.

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Startup Software Review Hiring Silicon Valley 108

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Given that bookkeeping is such an important part of business, professional services can keep your finances in order and even reduce your tax bill. Accountants also have the specialist knowledge to glean insights about the business by interpreting the figures, and can often give specific advice to startups. Hire Professional Services.

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Software Review Startup Vesting Forecast 91

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time. Update – As a followup, we analyzed all of these startup failure post-mortems to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. Post-Mortem Title : How My Startup Failed.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

The feature, titled “ Fitness Financed: Motion, Margin, Risk & Reward ,” offers an inside look into our office.). We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). Using a weighted vest while working at a standing desk can be a meaningful workout.

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The Next Web

JULY 21, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Güimar Vaca Sittic , a two time Internet entrepreneur currently working at Quasar Ventures based in Buenos Aires, and a Startup Chile Judge. This is why vesting is so important. Investing in vesting. Standard vesting clauses typically last four years and have a one year ‘cliff’.

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Vesting Founder Chile Equity 143

www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. Series Seed Financing Documents. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Series Seed Financing Documents : 1 Reblog. Good idea, I think this will benefit lots of startups and some angels. Ted: Great service to the startup community! SeriesSeed.com. Blog Archives.

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Finance Term Sheet Vesting LLC 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2021

Although every startup is unique, there are certain common avoidable mistakes that can lead to legal complications which jeopardize the long-term success of the business. Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share.

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Cost Non-Compete Accredited Investor Cofounder 363

venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Two founders works because unanimity is possible, there are no founder politics, interests can easily align, and founder stakes are high post-financing. FAQs What if the right guy already has his own startup? Build in founder vesting (a.k.a. Date first.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

This "best value" can be the valuation on the last round of financing. Whatever approach you use, it should be the value of your company that you would sell or finance your business at right now. Startups should be able to dramatically increase the value of their equity over the four years a stock grant vests.

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Equity Employee CTO Hire Fractional CTO 64

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2018

When you’re looking for extra funds, there are typically two options: debt financing and equity financing. It’s important to understand the difference between debt financing and equity financing so when it comes time to get additional funding, you know which is the right fit for your business and how to get it.

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Finance Equity Vesting Dividend 157

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2012

Although every startup is unique, there are certain common avoidable mistakes that can lead to legal complications which jeopardize the long-term success of the business. Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2013

Although every startup is unique, there are certain common avoidable mistakes that can lead to legal complications which jeopardize the long-term success of the business. Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share. Marty Zwilling.

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Non-Compete Accredited Investor Startup Cofounder 235

Altgate

JUNE 25, 2012

Choe’s equity is a headline-grabbing example of “dead equity”: equity owned by people who are no longer actively working for the startup. Every share of dead equity could have been redeployed as incentive for a current or future contributor to grow the value of the startup. Dead equity has always been a significant issue for startups.

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Equity Vesting Cap Table Technical Review 44

Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

This cheerleading often comes from those with vested interests, rather than from successful entrepreneurs who have successfully exited businesses and are looking to encourage the next generation. We should remind them that, as Steve Blank said, “a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Silicon Valley Lean 82

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs. In finance they call it “terminal value” but the truth is the price is as arbitrary at your A round as it is at your seed round. of the time I have no vested interest in having the debate. I really just want to champion Finance 101 to entrepreneurs.

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Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet 417

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. And weirdly the buyers of this technology often have a vested interest in buying from the incumbent. So the startups tend to focus on totally new customers. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market.

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Vesting Framework Revenue Technology 376

David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Do you have a great team at your seed startup, but your product just isn’t working? Would you like to have a salary from day one that you work full-time on your startup? We are a nonpartisan, bipartisan startup of concerned Americans. We agree on an equity split, vesting, and initial compensation structure.

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America Technical Review Advisory Board Due Diligence 60

David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Do you have a great team at your seed startup, but your product just isn’t working? Would you like to have a salary from day one that you work full-time on your startup? We are a nonpartisan, bipartisan startup of concerned Americans. We agree on an equity split, vesting, and initial compensation structure.

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America Technical Review Advisory Board Due Diligence 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Stock options are issued to employees usually through an Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) and include what is called a “vesting period.” The vesting period, often three or four years, frees up a percentage of the options for the employee to purchase the longer they stay at the company. Restricted stock: .

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Equity Employee Stock Options Vesting 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

The role of a founding CEO in a startup searching for a business model is radically different than a CEO building and growing a company. So if you’re the founder of a startup, you may want to consider who you take money from. What startup stage do they typically invest in? What Startup Stage Do they Invest In?

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Founder Vesting Later Stage Early Stage 232

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2011

Although every startup is unique, there are certain common avoidable mistakes that can lead to legal complications which jeopardize the long-term success of the business. Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share.

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Non-Compete Accredited Investor Entrepreneur Cofounder 246

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I was surprised by this, as I thought Seth was going to discuss another option I’ve seen used with great success: customer financing. This situation is so unbelievably advantageous to a startup it’s like strapping rockets to your running shoes.

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Equity Software Review RSS Widget 42

www.instigatorblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact My thoughts & lessons learned on startups, entrepreneurship, marketing and other stuff. Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees Tweet Recently someone asked me for advice on how much equity they should give to their early employees. the better the startup will be. 1% is just not a lot.

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Equity Employee Startup Vesting 41

www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. We will grant him/her X% fully diluted shares up front, and every time he/she makes an introduction, he/she will vest in 100 shares.” The most you lose is 1 or 2 months of vesting on the stock.

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Equity Vesting Silicon Valley Intellectual Property 40

Up and Running

APRIL 3, 2018

The same goes for leadership, sales, finance, and even personal areas such as health or family relationships. A coach who is paid has a vested interest in your success. In order to build community, simply choose people who have the same values in life and have a similar outlook on life and support them and encourage them.

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Vesting Community Small Business Cofounder 85

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Advisor. ); STARTUP. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Innovation | Fridays.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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Equity Finance Denver Pre-Money Valuation 137

Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Over the past six months, my firm has been engaged by a number of startups with significant intellectual property (“IP”) problems. The purpose of this blog post is to briefly discuss the three most common IP mistakes that startups make. working on the startup) while employed. Introduction. Any IP created by a founder (e.g.,

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Short of declaring failure and shutting down your company, laying off employees is the worst thing you may have to do as a startup CEO. Financing will take longer than expected to come through, receivables will dry up, and so on. I’ve had to lay people off on three separate occasions. Remove poor performers.

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Salary Vesting Employee B2C 62

www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. Having seen these dilemmas derail countless startups, I wish every entrepreneur and prospective founder would read this book." - Eric. Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits.

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Equity Founder Technical Cofounder Cofounder 72

venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. The options typically vest monthly over 1-2 years with 100% single-trigger acceleration and no cliff. Although the advisor is on a vesting schedule, you should expect them to add most of their value up-front—that’s normal. Does this stake need to have vesting schedule?

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Advisory Board Cap Table Vesting Equity 44

Altgate

AUGUST 25, 2012

Choe’s equity is a headline-grabbing example of “dead equity”: equity owned by people who are no longer actively working for the startup. Every share of dead equity could have been redeployed as incentive for a current or future contributor to grow the value of the startup. Dead equity has always been a significant issue for startups.

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Equity Vesting Cap Table Technical Review 28